A ten day solo exhibition titled “The Oriental Life’ by a young and promising artist Nazmul Haque Bappi is going on at Gallery Chitrak in Dhanmondi. This is the 4th solo-exhibition of the gifted artist and it ends Monday at 7pm.
The paintings on display have a simplistic approach and his art is very much in oriental style. The Great Wall can be found in his paintings along with a rural madonna walking past a dusty road. She has a Cane basket in one hand, her child in another, a rather common scenario on the countryside of China.
His intention through the fifty paintings is to depict the simple, happy and innocent life that the people of the orient used enjoy and the shift to a self destructive civilisation led to a life, where simplicity is an absurd word. Lust and consumerism has affected life in every sphere and every aspect.
Being chased by the destructive demon, he rather chose to paint the beauty - flowers, birds in couple, bamboo clump, woman with flower, etc. His compositions are compact in nature and the texture depicts the dexterity of his brush that he randomly used. Especially the treatment of white seems to overpower in some compositions in a clustered way.
“The speed of the horse,” and “The Leaning Buddha” are some noteworthy works and very skilfully executed.
Bappi has been a student of Oriental Art Department of Dhaka University. Thus he chose this path but his works has a modernity which is in a class by itself. The artist has received scholarship for PhD from the government of China for Chinese painting.